Byron Poetical Works
London: Oxford University Press, 1870. 8vo. Hardcover. Pp.x,925; on fine paper. Bound in tan half crushed morocco with gilt decorations on spine. TEG. A fine copy. More
London: Oxford University Press, 1870. 8vo. Hardcover. Pp.x,925; on fine paper. Bound in tan half crushed morocco with gilt decorations on spine. TEG. A fine copy. More
London: Murray, 1844. 8vo. Hardcover. Pp.xxiv,827, List of works; Contemporary half calf and red cloth boards. A handsome copy with gilt decorations on spine. More
London: Murray, 1832. Small 8vo. Hardcover. 17 vols. (Though on title page mentions 14 vols) Full original brown tree calf with gilt decorations on spines and front board border.Titling labels in red and green. 3 volumes have minor marks on spine. More
No Binding. Original photograph 15.5 x 10 cm mounted on card 25.5 x 20.5 cm, showing a group of tennis players posed on the court, including King George VI, Lord Birkenhead, the Lord Chancellor, and F M B Fisher. c. 1930s. Inscription on card. More
1830. No Binding. Signature of Lord Auckland, on slip: 'London June fourteen 1830, Lady Moore, Brook Farm, Cobham, Surrey, Auckland'. Includes a postmark dated 14 June 1830. George Eden, 1st Earl of Auckland (1784-1849) was a Whig politician, three times First Lord of the Admiralty, and Governor-General of India 1836-1842..... More
1832. No Binding. Signature of Lord Gambier, on slip: 'Uxbridge twenty-five April 1832, The Revd F Cunningham, Vicarage, Lowestoft. Gambier'. Includes a clear red postmark dated 25 April 1832. Lord Gambier (1756-1833) served in the Royal Navy, first becoming a captain in 1778, was active through the Napoleonic Wars, Commander-in-Chief..... More
No Binding. Signed slip from Edric Gifford, 3rd Baron Gifford, VC. 'Admit to Strangers Gallery House of Lords. C Law Esq. on --- 1880. Gifford'. Lord Gifford (1849-1911) won the VC in the third Anglo-Ashanti war in 1874 at the age of 23. Later in the 1880s, he was Colonial..... More
London: Constable, 1919. 8vo. Hardcover. pp.xv,388 Frontis piece portrait and other plates. Original cloth. Backend papers stained. An interesting copy with 2 original photographs of Grace glued in, one on the front end paper shows him holding his dog and has in early hand in ink the words "Highmead Glamorgan..... More
No Binding. Paper slip 9.5 x 4 cm."Palmerston" Lord Palmerston (1784-1865), one of the major 19th C statesmen, was in government in Britain in various roles almost continuously from 1807 until his death in 1865, most notably as Foreign Minister and Prime Minister. More
London: Longmans, 1889. 8vo. Hardcover. 3rd edition. Frontispiece, plates and illustrations in text. Original blue roan and orange cloth board A fine complete, original copy. More